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I found a bug (and solution) in FreeBSD repo which I want to report. Mailed about it on FreeBSD mailing list (freebsd-current). Didn't see mail on the mailing list archive after few days.
Sent another mail. Mail still didn't get to the mailing list.
More than a week has pass after my first mail.
I am subscribed to the mailing list and can see mails from other members.
What to do? Who to contact?
 
Mailing to freebsd-current@freebsd.org certainly should "just work". Maybe something on your sending mail system (do you operate your own?) is misconfigured? Maybe your Email doesn't pass SPF, DKIM or is for some other reason misidentified as "spam"?

But anyways,
PerOrs said:
I found a bug (and solution) in FreeBSD repo which I want to report.
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this sounds like you should consider creating a PR on bugzilla, attaching your patch if applicable.
 
zirias@ said:
Mailing to freebsd-current@freebsd.org certainly should "just work". Maybe something on your sending mail system (do you operate your own?) is misconfigured? Maybe your Email doesn't pass SPF, DKIM or is for some other reason misidentified as "spam"?
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Yes, but you'd think that the process of subscribing to the list with confirmation by email should have revealed any such issues?

I've always found email to postmaster@ produces helpful results, and it's not filtered as fully as list mail.

Not to detract from your advice re PRs.
 
smithi said:
I've always found email to postmaster@ produces helpful results
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Indeed, for some reason my domain got on some blacklist (disclaimer: I'm using fastmail as provider so it was completely false positive :D) and postmaster kindly grepped through the logs providing me with all needed information.
 
Thanks for the replies!
I have sent mail to portmaster@.

I am using custom domain for my mail but behind the scenes is Proton mail service.

I'm not sure where the bug is. Problem is when building -CURRENT with external compiler (LLVM16 from ports). Simple patch fixes that (patch was mostly copy-pasted from in-tree LLVM16).
I have few other reports to bugzilla which have been ignored for weeks and I wanted to try my luck with mailing list.
I'll open a PR later.
 
mailing lists: also, every mailing list worth its salt has headers in every message telling you how to handle things. example random message from freebsd-current archive
if you press on the "Original text of this message" link at the bottom you can see headers like these
Code: 
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current <freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current+help@freebsd.org>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:freebsd-current+subscribe@freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:freebsd-current+unsubscribe@freebsd.org>
See that List-Help: header?
 
The problem was "libc.so" string in my mail so it ended in the spam.
After trimming, mail was sent successfully.
For interested: mail, PR.
 
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